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Guitarist B.B. King, who took the blues from rural juke joints to the mainstream and influenced a generation of rock guitarists from Eric Clapton to Stevie Ray Vaughan, has died, the Los Angeles ...
Riley B. King (September 16, 1925 – May 14, 2015), known professionally as B. B. King, was an American blues guitarist, singer, songwriter, and record producer. He introduced a sophisticated style of soloing based on fluid string bending , shimmering vibrato , and staccato picking that influenced many later electric guitar blues players.
B.B. King, the Mississippi guitarist who indelibly influenced rock and blues music, died on Thursday. He was 89. King's music touched millions around the world so little wonder the outpouring of ...
B. B. King (1925–2015) was an American blues musician whose recording career spanned 1949–2008. As with other blues contemporaries, King's material was primarily released on singles until the late 1950s–early 1960s, when long playing record albums became more popular.
A Gibson Lucille model semi-acoustic guitar, unique for having no f-holes. Lucille is the name American blues musician B. B. King (1925–2015) gave to his guitars. They were usually black Gibson guitars similar to the ES-330 or ES-355, and Gibson introduced a B.B. King custom model in 1980, based upon the latter.
In 1983, King was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame. [7] He received a star on the St. Louis Walk of Fame in 1993. [35] In 2011, King was honored with a marker on the Mississippi Blues Trail in his hometown Indianola. [7] [36] He was inducted into the Memphis Music Hall of Fame in 2013. [9] King was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of ...
He eventually joined B.B. King's Blues Band and eventually became leader of that world famous band. A member of the King’s Blues Band for more than 30 years, it was B.B. King who gave Bolden the nickname “Boogaloo” because of Bolden’s restless feet. [2] Bolden's own R&B band is the James Boogaloo Bolden Blues Band. [3]
Live in Cook County Jail is a 1971 live album by American blues musician B.B. King, recorded on September 10, 1970, in Cook County Jail in Chicago.Agreeing to a request by jail warden Winston Moore, King and his band performed for an audience of 2,117 prisoners, most of whom were young black men.